RE: eupolicy.social/@ilumium/11660…
Big Tech loves to sponsor so-called “human rights” and “privacy and data protection” conferences for the same reason Big Tobacco loves to sponsor healthcare conferences.
As you can see, the European Conference on Tobacco or Health, for example, is sponsored by Philip Morris, British American Tobacco, and Altria Group*, just like #CPDP2026 is sponsored by Google, Microsoft, and TikTok**.
Oh wait, they’re not.
Because, unlike CPDP, they’re not a bunch of hypocrites and useful idiots working to legitimise the worst surveillance capitalists and people farmers – not to mention, these days, corporations complicit in literal genocide – for profit.
I wrote this ten years ago:
ar.al/notes/why-im-
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Big Tech loves to sponsor so-called “human rights” and “privacy and data protection” conferences for the same reason Big Tobacco loves to sponsor healthcare conferences.
As you can see, the European Conference on Tobacco or Health, for example, is sponsored by Philip Morris, British American Tobacco, and Altria Group*, just like #CPDP2026 is sponsored by Google, Microsoft, and TikTok**.
Oh wait, they’re not.
Because, unlike CPDP, they’re not a bunch of hypocrites and useful idiots working to legitimise the worst surveillance capitalists and people farmers – not to mention, these days, corporations complicit in literal genocide – for profit.
I wrote this ten years ago:
ar.al/notes/why-im-not-speakin…
Nothing has changed. And nothing will change as long as people with legitimacy continue to normalise these scams by attending, promoting, and speaking at them.
* ectoh.org/sponsor/
** cpdpconferences.org/#sponsors
#CPDP #CPDP2026 #privacyWashing
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